Motswako Production

What benefits, lessons and experiences have you gained from the institutions listed below that you can share with other entrepreneurs and business owners? Are we all aware of the support and opportunities these institutions provide?

We cannot afford to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. By now, our discussions should be focusing on business growth strategies such as mergers, distribution, branding, production, market access, pricing, and competitiveness and not just grassroots funding.

The institutions and funding mechanisms listed represent some of the support that government has put in place since 1994 to address the historical imbalances of the past.

Institutions
* Agriculture, land reform and rural development.
* Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
* National Youth Development Agency (NYDA).
* Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).
* Technology Development Fund (TDF).
* National Empowerment Fund (NEF).
* Corporate Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD).
* Department of Small Business Development (DSBD).
* The Black Industrialists Scheme (BIS).
* The Small Enterprise Development and Finance Agency (SEDFA), formed by the merger of SEFA, SEDA, and the CBDA.
* Land and Agriculture Bank of South Africa.
And many more.

Others - Financiers with special incentives.
* Khula Enterprise Finance .
* Small Business Growth Trust Fund.
* Land and Agriculture Bank of South Africa and many more.